Dear friends, I’ve been silent for a while, but I wanted to pass these two pieces from openheaven on to you. God is doing something massive in these last days. The spiritual warfare has been intense, but the tide is turning, and through it […]
Category: Spiritual Growth
Seeking peace
The Guardian has an interesting article on the downside to social networking. But it doesn’t focus on the more blatant dangers we hear about, such as stalkers, immorality or the loss of privacy. It’s focus is on the subtle but profound effect of life […]
Out of the comfort zone, and on to victory
Out of weakness were made strong – Heb 11.34 Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle –Ps144.1 The story of Gideon gives us a vivid biblical illustration of how the Lord can raise up […]
Jesus Insists On Full Salvation
There’s a well known story in the Bible, about a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years. She came to Jesus from behind, secretly touched the hem of His garment, and was healed. It seems like a simple story, but there’s […]
God’s motivation was love (video added)
As humans, we tend to project our earthly experiences onto God, especially family of origin issues, and because of that, I've often had a hard time trying to relate to God's love. I saw that love written in the Bible, I heard it preached, and I've certainly even had wonderful times of communion in prayer and worship, but generally I’ve not understood or even had a functional belief in God's love for me.
There is great gain in contentment!
Drivers on the road this morning – a damp, cold Monday – were rough, jagged, unpredictable, selfish, dangerous. I immediately adopted an attitude of meekness rather than fighting back. I decided I was not going to participate in the craziness. I took it easy […]
Conditions are right! -by Jeremy Caris
This comes by way of the Elijah List. I think it’s a timely and very-well-stated encouragement to deal with our situation as it NOW is rather than waiting for the breakthrough. Not that the breakthrough isn’t coming, but in one parable after another, the […]
Smith Wigglesworth ministered from a broken heart
Paul Keith Davis recently related this anecdote about the great Smith Wigglesworth, apostle of faith. In 1922 Wigglesworth journeyed to New Zealand for a series of healing campaigns. At the time, he was unknown to New Zealand’s leadership, but with great confidence various pastors […]
God’s perspective on mistakes, failures and missed opportunities -video link added
Satan uses our mistakes, failures and missed opportunities as weapons against us, in an attempt to destroy our faith and effectiveness. For this reason, it is essential that we understand God's perspective on these things, because His perspective is much better than ours.
To realize your destiny, get rid of negative influences and wrong thinking
It’s critical to Christian growth that we weed out whatever we can that is negative toward God’s will for our lives. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We must allow nothing to defile that temple or obstruct God’s workings within us. When […]
A Prophetic Passover Message of Love from Messiah -Catherine Brown
An excellent message received via the ElijahList, dealing with different ways we can be hurt, and how to find the power to overcome and turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. In Betrayal – “I Love You” While He was still speaking a crowd came […]
Challenges and victories: Growing in grace and knowledge
It's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd try to catch up. This has been the most amazing growth season for me since I was first Saved back in 1980. In a nutshell, what’s going on is brokenness turning over the fallow ground, necessity sowing seeds of change, and my tears supplying the rain. With the passage of time, “someone warming them from below”, and my reintroduction to the Gospel of Grace, which I once knew but had somehow lost sight of, those seeds have been bearing a rich crop.
Witnessing to the culture
Sanctified political action is a good and even necessary thing which should be pursued. But if we don’t change the hearts of the people we are going to lose the culture, and then the nation itself, and no law or politics will be able to stem that tide. The church can function without government support. It's terribly undesirable, inconvenient and painful, as we abundantly see in persecuted nations, but it can be done. But the church cannot function with the personal testimonies of the saints.
The still waters of grace
My personal Grace Awakening continues apace, but the past two days have been characterized by rest. Rest is new to me, and not natural to my old nature. I’m a confirmed Type A, driven, entrepreneurial sort, so don’t blame it on me – I […]
